There are nearly eight billion people on our planet – yet many of us feel alone and isolated. Neil and Sam from BBC Learning English discuss the results of a survey about loneliness involving 55,000 people from all over the world – and teach you new English vocabulary.

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Vocabulary

isolated
far away from other places and people

stereotype
the noun for a simplistic view of person or group based on certain characteristics such as their nationality, age, profession and the like

intensely
strongly

plagued by something
it causes you problems and difficulties

figure something out
trying to understand something

to regulate
to control

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Nabila Saeed

Tria Mellinia

Summer Ali

April 18, 2020

This actually a good topic to talk about that effects a lot of people but I think one is solution is to open a leisure clubs so people can come together and practice some activities and at the same time meet new people

Nishant Saxena

April 18, 2020

As we can see in the present time how social media isolated people from the real world so we can see the effect on the people how lonely they start to feel themselves. We need to figure out the balance between social media and friends and try to establish an intense relation with friends and family. We also try to regulate ourselves by noticing the harm of excessive use of social media. We need to break the stereotype of being cool on social media is a big thing. Otherwise, We'll be plagued by some kind of mental problem. Hopefully, I made the correct use of grammar.

Abdelrahman sherif hassan

Ярослава Павловская

Htet Htet Lin

April 18, 2020

We feel lonely even though people we know or our friends are around us because we believe that they care only about their happiness, not ours; they care only about their problems, not ours; they only want to tell about themselves, not interested in ours; even if they listen to our emotions or feelings, we believe that they won’t understand much or care…